Christmas is coming
So even the fire hydrant is taking part in the celebration
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常熟路 Changshu Lu
Shanghai is perhaps best known for its Art Deco heritage from the 1920s and 1930s. Despite the rapid rate of development and demolition, Shanghai today has the largest number of Art Deco buildings in the world.
Besides Art Deco, Shanghai is rich in architectural styles and diversity. Lining the city’s Bund waterfront promenade are stately neo-classical and baroque buildings. Shikumen, traditional Shanghainese terraced houses mixing both Eastern and Western influences can be found down numerous side streets. The mix is only complemented by countless European cottages and garden villas, Shanghai-style townhouses and century-old traditional Chinese structures.
(Above excerpted from an AmCham publication)
Shanghai boasts a wide variety of architectural styles as it was governed and occupied by foreign powers from when it became a proper city (1842). Broadly speaking, old residences in Shanghai can be classified into three categories by architectural style: shikumen (townhouses, old & new), villas, and apartment buildings.
During and after World War II, massive population increases in Shanghai led many shikumen and villas to be heavily subdivided. While they have mostly remained in one piece, the strain from decades of overcrowdedness shows. As the World Expo approaches, many of these buildings are given a facelift (without displacing the residents).
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常熟路 Changshu Lu
Shanghai is perhaps best known for its Art Deco heritage from the 1920s and 1930s. Despite the rapid rate of development and demolition, Shanghai today has the largest number of Art Deco buildings in the world.
Besides Art Deco, Shanghai is rich in architectural styles and diversity. Lining the city’s Bund waterfront promenade are stately neo-classical and baroque buildings. Shikumen, traditional Shanghainese terraced houses mixing both Eastern and Western influences can be found down numerous side streets. The mix is only complemented by countless European cottages and garden villas, Shanghai-style townhouses and century-old traditional Chinese structures.
(Above excerpted from an AmCham publication)
Shanghai boasts a wide variety of architectural styles as it was governed and occupied by foreign powers from when it became a proper city (1842). Broadly speaking, old residences in Shanghai can be classified into three categories by architectural style: shikumen (townhouses, old & new), villas, and apartment buildings.
During and after World War II, massive population increases in Shanghai led many shikumen and villas to be heavily subdivided. While they have mostly remained in one piece, the strain from decades of overcrowdedness shows. As the World Expo approaches, many of these buildings are given a facelift (without displacing the residents).
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But until then, we have to drag ourselves around in mud. Quite literally.
Corner of Huashan Lu and Yan'an Lu.
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Shanghai is renovating every corner of the city in preparation for next year's World Expo. It will be quite pleasant...
Corner of Huashan Lu and Yan'an Lu.
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